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UNCG celebrates National Distance Learning Week
It’s National Distance Learning Week, and UNCG Online is part of the country-wide celebration of online education. At its inception 20 years ago, UNC Greensboro offered just 14 online classes. Today, online students can choose from over 650 courses, including the only online PhD in Business Administration in North Carolina. The BS in Integrated Professional Studies, another […]
UNCG students meet community needs with innovative mental health care
Thanks to a new training grant, doctoral students in UNCG’s clinical psychology program are bringing innovative mental health care to at-risk populations, such as the elderly, young children, veterans and the homeless in medically underserved areas of Guilford County and across the state. The focus of clinical psychology and the way patients receive psychological care […]
A viral voice
Education is no equalizer — Rather, it is the sleep that precedes the American Dream. So wake up — wake up! Lift your voices Until you’ve patched every hole in a child’s broken sky. …No, sky is not the limit. It is only the beginning. Lift off. Donovan Livingston captured the attention of millions of […]
Union Square Campus opens Friday
At the corner of Arlington Street and Gate City Boulevard, the Union Square Campus is a symbol of partnership and revitalization in downtown Greensboro, and it’s opening its doors for the first time later this week. The campus will house UNCG’s doctor of nursing practice program that trains nurse practitioners, nurse executives and certified registered […]
Riding high at therapy camp
At first glance, UNCG’s Horsepower Experience looks like any other horseback riding camp, but it’s much more. Over the past 13 summers, graduate students in UNCG’s Communication Sciences and Disorders (CSD) program have spent two weeks at HORSEPOWER Therapeutic Learning Center in Colfax. They use horses to provide therapy to individuals with communication disorders alongside […]
Gate City girl
Born and bred in Greensboro, Emma Rettew had no plans of attending college in her hometown. Instead, she headed west to a university in the mountains. But after a year and a half, she missed the pace of the city. She transferred to UNCG, a decision that’s meant top-notch internships, being able to shadow industry […]
Ahead of her time
In the early ’70s, Nancy James Adams ’60, ’77 MS routinely made the trek between Burlington and Greensboro. The Woman’s College (now UNCG) alumna often attended seminars and other events at her alma mater. As she rolled down the interstate in her blue Buick one day in 1973, Adams heard something on the radio that […]
Tough, but worth it
Louis Sulit doesn’t know how to shy away from a challenge. Earlier this month, he graduated from UNCG with a bachelor’s degree in biology and full university honors. He’s spent the last four years of his life pursuing excellence. From study abroad to undergraduate research, his hard work and dedication have paid off. After all, […]
Graduate and undergraduate research expo winners announced
Each spring, UNCG celebrates student research by hosting both a graduate and an undergraduate research expo highlighting UNCG students’ cutting edge research. This year’s Carolyn and Norwood Thomas Undergraduate Research and Creativity Expo was March 29, and included a presentation from Jennifer Blackmer, 2015 winner of the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theatre Award for […]
Teaching and tech: Deaf education students create lessons in SELF Design Studio
The instructions were simple. Claudia Pagliaro’s students had to create a language-based project for their future deaf and hard of hearing students using the UNCG School of Education’s SELF Design Studio. The students didn’t receive much direction, but that was the point. “I want them to go into the SELF Design Studio and try things. […]
